Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a matter of time. For seven weeks the world had marveled at the restraint demonstrated by both Beijing's rulers and the thousands of demonstrators for democracy who had occupied Tiananmen Square. The whole affair, in fact, had developed the aura of a surrealistic ritual, with both sides' forces stepping in circles as if they were performing some stately, stylized pavane. Violence, it seemed, was out of the question. And then, early Sunday morning, the dance ended in a spasm of fury, the worst day of bloodshed in Communist China's history...
...thousands of years spanned by Chinese history, unspeakable atrocities have occurred. Millions have suffered from the machinations of cloistered emperors, empresses and eunuchs; whole cities have been slaughtered by marauding invaders and warlords. Until Sunday, that all seemed safely in the past. No one quite expected it to happen again. The shock will ease with the passage of weeks. The tremors will be felt for years...
...Mainz, West Germany, Bush delivered his strongest speech since the Inauguration. He put the U.S. squarely in favor of the unification of Europe, addressing widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal...
...This proposal is racist," said Robert L. Wilkins, president of the Black Law Students' Association. "The assumption it asked people to make runs counter to the idea of fighting discrimination. This whole thing became very insulting because conservative students were trying to equate their experience as an 'ideological minority' with that of Black, female or gay students...
...March, the Women's Law Association wrote to a visiting professor, charging that he repeatedly used sexist language in his lectures and in a textbook he authored. The professor responded with a sharp criticism of the group's claim, saying "this whole affair...reeks of McCarthyism...